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Wednesday, June 25, 2014

RACIALISM'S THE ANSWER AT TOP UNIVERSITY

Dear Would-be Students,

Do you know the story of the vulture
that went round in ever decreasing circles until it eventually disappeared….

That’s the censored version I’m using
for decorum’s sake and so as not to corrupt the youth.

Anyway what I’m getting at is that South African universities have a bad
case of the vulture syndrome epitomised by the University of Cape Town (UCT).

There the race track is far from level for everyone. And what’s more disturbing is
that its Vice-chancellor
Dr Max Price is so proud of it.

Periodically he hits the headlines with
up dates on this latest brand of social engineering.

When I first wrote about it (See Colour code your
doctorand live longerand University justifies Racial Prejudice) it was Funny Ha! Ha! unless you happened to be
a White, Indian or a not Black
enough student trying to get into this renowned establishment of higher
learning.

Now it has
graduated to Funny Absurd but not
many people are laughing especially young Whites
and their parents.

DR PRICE TRYING TO EXPLAIN HOW RACIALISM WORKS

The idea of the policy was to give Blacks an artificial leg up because
they had been discriminated against in all walks of life by the previous White apartheid Government.

At the time of my first post the Black African NationalCongress had been in power running down the
country for 17 years. It pretended that it stood for a non racial society when
it was lying through its sparkling white teeth by doing its utmost to promote Blacks
at every opportunity, at the expense of other races, particularly Whites.

Priceless Max was revelling in it. At the University’sMedical School for instance Whites
and Indians were expected to get at
least 80% in their university entrance exams to stand a remote chance of even
being considered for admission.

Blacks only needed a mere 60% to walk in.

Being
the rightCOLOURgets you the highestmarks of all.

Now 20 years since White rule ceased Price is in the news again with an even more
baffling version of the policy he claims has now been changed so it is no
longer based on race.

Will this be any help to the Whites who have been discriminated against as a reprisal for what
the Whites only Government did when
they weren’t even born then?

However the gobbledygookPrice
told Chris Barron in an interview
for the Sunday
Times showed how difficult he is finding it to justify the
indefensible. The longer the interview went on the more Priceless Max looked like that
vulture I mentioned in the beginning.

I hope Chris won’t mind if I lift a few quotes from
his excellent report just to show you what I meant when I said that policy had
reached the Funny Absurd stage. Actually
it’s a lot worse but as I never went to university I can’t think of any more
suitable words to describe it.

Here’s part of the interview with my comments in brackets.

Barron: Why are you going to such pains to pretend
that you will no longer be selecting on a race basis?

Price: We’re saying that race remains
important, but that we don’t have to use race classification to achieve
demographic targets.

Barron: So the bottom
line is that race will remain as much of a factor as it is under the existing
policy.

Price: Race will, race classification will not.
(It’s hard to imagine how a person who speaks this kind of Double Dutch can become a vice-chancellor at a university).

Barron: In effect you’ll be selecting on the basis
of race rather than merit?

Price: No. If we have two students who have 70%
and one of them, whether black or white comes
from a disadvantaged background,
then that student will get in (The odds of a White being more disadvantaged
than a Black are remote so this changes nothing).

Barron: What about the case of a black student who
is accepted for medical school with 70% whereas the white student with 90% is
rejected?

Price: Let’s bring it closer to reality.
Probably 77% would get in above a white student with 90% (That sounds so much
fairer and you can’t get more Priceless than that).

Barron: Whose interests are served by that?

Price: If you had a white student with the same
background (in other words poor) with 77%, that white student would also get in
above a white student(well off)
with 90%. The idea is to give disadvantaged students the same opportunity as
advantaged students (How can opportunities be equalised by excluding someone with 90%? In any case Price wandered off the
point by compared White with White
instead of White with Black).

Max
concluded by saying If we were to take
all our applicants in this year 2014 for medical and judge them
only on the marks they’ve achieved, there would only be about five or 10
African students in a class of 200(Yet
he’s still waffling away trying to make us believe that the policy has changed
when it’s still as Black as ever. So the heading on my first post on this
subject remains as true as ever –Colour Code your Doctor and live longer).

It’s a very poor reflection on South Africa
that after 20 years of Black rule
being Black is the most important
qualification to enable anyone to become
a doctor through UCT’s Medical School.

This might be okay for somebody learning to throw the bones to become a witch doctor, but it’s scary when the
qualified could be transplanting hearts and doing other major operations.

All the
University is doing is perpetuating apartheid that was so abhorred by the
entire world when the previous White Government was in power. Only now it’s the
other way round and that makes it – perfectly alright.

So Black is
still the most beautifulcolour and the policy vulture will remain flying
around in ever decreasing circles with the difference being it will – NEVER DISAPPEAR Harmonious mixing of people of all colours doesn't have much of a future when universities teach How to play the race card to win as part of their curriculum.

Regards,

Jon, a Consumer
Watchdog and if you ask me I would say that Dr Price’s master race plan badly
needs a transfusion of mixed blood.

P.S. Will any of us live to see
the day when South Africa
has matured sufficiently to treat us all on merit rather than on COLOUR?

P.P.S.Chris congratulations
on your no holds barred interview and the many other admirable ones you have
done over the years reminiscent of the BBC’s
Hard Talk.

Buy my book ‘Where have all the children
gone?’ on Amazon.comIt’s a thriller
with an underlying love story.

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I was born in South Africa just before the Boer War whenever that was?
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